"suites with the Curwen Gallery and its director Stanley Jones, one in 1969 and one in 1971. The latter was entitled ""The Aegean Suite"" (1971) and was inspired by Hepworth's trip to Greece in 1954 with Margaret Gardiner. The artist also produced a set of lithographs entitled ""Opposing Forms"" (1970) with Marlborough Fine Art in London. Barbara Hepworth died in an accidental fire at her Trewyn studios on 20 May 1975 at the age of 72. Two museums are named after Hepworth and have significant collections of her work: the Barbara Hepworth Museum in St Ives, Cornwall and The Hepworth"
"has not since been reinstated, despite the developer's commitment to do so. Other works by Godwin include ""Polar Theme"" at Philips former Laboratories in Salfords, Redhill, Surrey and ""Fountain"" at the ATV building at Elstree Studios. Godwin's smaller works include a series of plaster figures made for the Imperial War Museum depicting a WRNS rating, a WVS tea-lady and a Landgirl. Godwin died at Sudbury, Suffolk in early 1991, aged 75. The Manchester Academy of Fine Arts commemorates him with the ""Keith Godwin Sculpture Award"", presented to a young sculptor every year. Keith Godwin Keith Godwin (17 April 1916 –"
"plane went down during a hurricane while he was serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force. In later life, Mayhew suffered from brain damage brought on by styrene poisoning from the styrofoam moulds that she used during the sculpting process. She died at the Lodge at Broadmead in Victoria at the age of 87. Her former studio in Victoria has been designated as a heritage building by the city of Victoria. Mayhew, who produced her sculptures from the mid-1950s to the 1980s, is best known for her large-scale abstract bronze sculptures which were mainly cast at a foundry in Eugene,"
"Roy Selwyn-Smith Roy Selwyn-Smith (22 September 1923 in Walton-on-Thames – 16 June 2006), was well known as a sculptor of English plastic figures and toy soldiers. Following World War II service as a Merchant Navy radio operator in the North Atlantic, Selwyn-Smith joined Myer Zang's Modern Packages where he learned sculpting and plastic moulding from 1947-1949. Hethen joined Willmore & Sons that made moulds for lead hollow cast figures for Timpo. Selwyn-Smith used his wife Mary as a model for a figure of a woman leaning against her suitcase. In 1951 Selwyn-Smith formed Selwyn until his backer committed suicide and"
"the signature piece for an exhibition of sculpture at Avebury Manor. Wynne wrote of the inspirations for her work Althea Wynne Althea Kathleen Wynne (6 October 1936 – 24 January 2012), also known by her married names of Dresman and Barrington Brown, was an English sculptor and art teacher, and a Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. She specialised in creating large figurative work for gardens and public open spaces. The daughter of an officer in the Royal Air Force, Wynne was educated at North Foreland Lodge, Farnham School of Art (1953–1955), Hammersmith College (1955–1957), and the Royal"
"Forms. A set of photographs in the museum shows the progress of this project. Wood carving was done in an upstairs room, and the bronze statues she started casting in 1956 had their origins in the plaster prototypes she worked on in the upper of the two outside studios. She was helped in the creation of the garden by her friend, the South African-born composer Priaulx Rainier. Barbara Hepworth died in a fire at this site in 1975, when she was aged 72. The family passed the museum to the Tate gallery in 1980 and they still manage it. Barbara"
"works as well. Agnes Arellano Agnes Arellano (born 21 November 1949) is a Philippine sculptor known for her surrealistic sculptural groupings. A family tragedy that occurred in 1981 determined the course of her career and the major themes in her art. Her parents, her sister Citas and a housemaid were killed in a fire that razed the Arellanos’ ancestral home in San Juan, Manila. Arellano received news of the fire while she was on holiday in Spain. In memory of her late parents and sister, she decided to set up the nonprofit Pinaglabanan Galleries on the site of the ancestral"
"fire at her studio in St Ives in 1975. It includes two vertical bronze semi-circles forming a broken circle approximately across, each pieced pierced by one large hole. Both elements are welded to a bronze base. All three elements are hollow, and were cast in London by Morris Singer. Hepworth designed the work after being diagnosed with cancer in 1966. She wanted the viewer's body to be engaged with her work, saying: ""You can climb through the Divided Circle – you don't need to do it physically to experience it."" Hepworth also made a series of nine maquettes about tall,"
"Bronwyn Oliver Bronwyn Joy Oliver (née Gooda, 22 February 1959 – 10 July 2006) was an Australian sculptor whose work primarily consisted of metalwork. Oliver was raised in rural New South Wales. She trained at Sydney's Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education and London's Chelsea School of Art. She had early success, winning a New South Wales Travelling Art Scholarship in 1981 and the Moet & Chandon Australian Art Fellowship in 1984. Oliver settled in Sydney, where she practised and taught until her death in 2006. Oliver's sculptures are admired for their tactile nature, aesthetics, and technical skills demonstrated in"
"15s 8d she left to Margaret Harriett Wright, a widow, and Norman Wharry, a medical student. Both Wharry and Byer's hunger strike medals remain together in a private collection. Olive Wharry died at Heath Court Nursing Home in Torquay in 1947 at the age of 61. She never married, and never had children. Olive Wharry Olive Wharry (December 1886–2 October 1947) was an English artist, arsonist and suffragist who in 1913 was imprisoned with Lilian Lenton for burning down the tea pavilion at Kew Gardens. Olive Wharry was born into a middle-class family in London, the daughter of Clara (1855-1910,"
"Agnes Arellano Agnes Arellano (born 21 November 1949) is a Philippine sculptor known for her surrealistic sculptural groupings. A family tragedy that occurred in 1981 determined the course of her career and the major themes in her art. Her parents, her sister Citas and a housemaid were killed in a fire that razed the Arellanos’ ancestral home in San Juan, Manila. Arellano received news of the fire while she was on holiday in Spain. In memory of her late parents and sister, she decided to set up the nonprofit Pinaglabanan Galleries on the site of the ancestral home. Many unusual"
"the Studio Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia, one of the first such galleries in northern Virginia. In 1972 she served as chief of installation of the American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale; the following year a studio fire destroyed much of her work. Knight and her partner, Marcia Newell, lived for many years on a working farm in Haymarket, Virginia, where Knight worked as a certified wildlife rehabilitator in addition to creating art. Left nearly immobile by bouts of fibromyalgia and cancer, she turned to working in miniature forms before dying of cancer at Prince William Hospital in Manassas. She is"
"Simon. Rachel and Simon also became artists. The couple divorced in 1951. Hepworth, Nicholson and their children went to live in Cornwall at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. Hepworth lived in Trewyn Studios in St Ives from 1949 until her death in 1975. She said that ""Finding Trewyn Studio was sort of magic. Here was a studio, a yard, and garden where I could work in open air and space."" St Ives had become a refuge for many artists during the war. On 8 February 1949, Hepworth and Nicholson co-founded the Penwith Society of Arts at"
"left him in the 1970s. They had two sons and a daughter. From 1980 she was a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. Her bust of Arthur Koestler was shown at the Royal Academy in 1984. Bronze casts of the bust were acquired by the National Portrait Gallery and the Koestler Foundation. She kept on working until failing eyesight in her eighties stopped her sculpting. • Obituary notice in ""The Guardian"" Daphne Hardy Henrion Daphne Hardy Henrion (20 October 1917 – 31 October 2003) was a British sculptor, a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and"
"Death of Jeannie Saffin Jeanne Lucille Saffin (20 March 1921 – 23 September 1982) was a British woman whose death from fire in 1982 is cited by paranormal researchers and authors as an example of spontaneous human combustion, and is reported to be the most recent suspected case in the UK. Aspects of the reports made immediately after her injury and death apparently supported the conclusion that her death was due to spontaneous human combustion; John Heymer devoted a chapter of his 1996 book ""The Entrancing Flame"" to the case. However, later research has cast doubt on some of the"
"Althea Wynne Althea Kathleen Wynne (6 October 1936 – 24 January 2012), also known by her married names of Dresman and Barrington Brown, was an English sculptor and art teacher, and a Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. She specialised in creating large figurative work for gardens and public open spaces. The daughter of an officer in the Royal Air Force, Wynne was educated at North Foreland Lodge, Farnham School of Art (1953–1955), Hammersmith College (1955–1957), and the Royal College of Art (1957–1960). In 1959 Wynne gained an early commission from London County Council for a ciment-fondu group"
"James, joining her on a tour of Japan in 1998. In 2005, Tich was staying in a house in Canton in Cardiff. A fire broke out, after an unattended candle lit by the owner accidentally set clothes alight. Tich became trapped in the attic and was overcome by thick smoke and poisonous gases. An inquest into the fire in 2006 recorded a verdict of accidental death. A memorial concert was held for Tich at the Coal Exchange in Cardiff, and featured Welsh acts such as Man and Racing Cars. Tich Gwilym Tich Gwilym (10 September 1950 – 19 June 2005),"
"Dorothy Annan Dorothy Annan (20 January 1900 – 28 June 1983) was an English painter, potter and muralist, married to the painter and sculptor Trevor Tennant. She was born in Brazil to British parents and was educated in France and Germany. Her works were frequently shown at the Leicester Galleries in London and she had her first solo show there in 1945. Born in 1900, Annan exhibited with the Artists' International Association, and once featured in an art show in an air-raid shelter beside work by Augustus John during World War II. Annan was married to sculptor Trevor Tennant. She"
"done in bronze or terracotta bas-reliefs. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Tate Gallery, the Museum of Labour History in Manchester, Middleheim Museum in Belgium, the Graves Art Gallery in Sheffield, the City Art Gallery in Stoke-on Trent, Homerton College in Cambridge, and the City Art Gallery in Manchester. Public commissions include the Ministry of Work, 1950; Festival of Britain, 1951; St. John the Divine, 1961; Dalton House School, Sevenoaks, Kent 1986. Ghisha Koenig Ghisha Koenig (8 December 1921 - 15 October 1993) was a British sculptor whose work focused on the work place, especially factories as"
"in 2010 at the Attic Gallery in Swansea. She is an elected member of the Royal Cambrian Academy. Fourteen of Ganz's paintings are held in UK public collections, including the National Coal Mining Museum for England, the National Library of Wales and the National Museum of Wales. She died suddenly on 28 September 2015 aged 79, after struggling with ill health. Valerie Ganz Valerie Ganz (1936 – 2015) was a Welsh artist, known for her paintings of South Wales coal miners. Ganz grew up in Mumbles of Swansea. She studied art in Swansea then worked as a teacher and lecturer."
"-Scotland in 1938. Armour's husband died in 1966. After his death she settled in London and later in Aldeburgh where she died in 1985. Unfortunately, a studio fire destroyed much of her work. Together with 45 other Scottish female artists, Armour's work was exhibited from 7 November 2015 to 26 June 2016 in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in an exhibition called ""Modern Scottish Women: Painters and Sculptors 1885-1965"". Hazel Armour Hazel Ruthven Armour ( born Edinburgh 1894; died Aldeburgh 1985) was a Scottish sculptor and medallist. Born the second daughter of Harry and Mollie Armour, Hazel Armour"
"Ola Cohn Ola Cohn (born Carola Cohn; 25 April 1892 – 23 December 1964) was an Australian artist, author and philanthropist best known for her work in sculpture in a modernist style and famous for her ""Fairies Tree"" in the Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne. Cohn was born in Bendigo, Victoria. She went to school at Girton College in Bendigo and then studied drawing and sculpture at the Bendigo School of Mines. She continued her studies in Melbourne at Swinburne Technical College and then at the Royal College of Art in London. On her return to Melbourne in 1930 she established a"
"solo: group: </div> Noela Hjorth Noela Hjorth (5 December 1940 – 17 February 2016) was an Australian artist and builder of houses, known as ""living sculptures"". Her work reveals a fascination with the female form and its spiritual manifestations, exploring the mythology of ancient civilisation, Western approaches to nature enshrined in Celtic and Druid traditions, and the mysticism of Eastern religion. Noela Hjorth, printmaker, painter and sculptor, was born and studied in Melbourne, and trained at Chelsea Art School in London. Along with key printmakers such as Noel Counihan, she left a legacy as an important printmaker who helped to"
"she continued to sculpt, albeit subjects and icons of religious importance before returning to live in Belmont House in Hastings, Sussex in 1956. She died in 1970 at the age of 84, having outlived two of her three children. She is buried in the churchyard of St George's, Brede, Sussex beside her nephew Roger Frewen [d 1972] and her great-niece Selina Frewen [d 1972] and near the memorial she had carved to her son. When she died in 1970, her only daughter inherited her copyrights. When Sheridan died in 1976, it is believed that her mother's and her own copyrights"
"Killiney home and workshop, living the last ten years of her life in the Alexandra Guild House, Leinster Road West, Dublin. She died there on 20 October 1972. Eva Douglas painted a portrait of her. She is said to have believed she was a reincarnation of a Mayan princess. Mia Cranwill Mia Cranwill (1 March 1880 – 20 October 1972) was an Irish designer and metal artist, and was one of the leading artists of the Irish Celtic Revival. Mia Cranwill was born Maria Cranwill at 3 Charlotte Place, Drumcondra, Dublin on 1 March 1880. She was the daughter of"
"the Ceramics Galleries of the Victoria and Albert Museum. She lived in East Riding of Yorkshire all her life and died in her 95th year. Dorothy Marion Campbell Dorothy Marion Campbell (11 January 1911 in Hedon, Yorkshire – 3 October 2005 in East Riding of Yorkshire) was an English potter. Early in 1954 Marion replied to Hornsea Pottery’s advertisement in the ""Hull Daily Mail"" for ‘a modeller in clay’ and was invited to work for the Rawson brothers. She worked from home, and took her completed models to Hornsea Pottery on the bus. Her designs for Hornsea, especially the African"
"Grizel Niven Grizel Rosemary Graham Niven (28 November 1906 – 28 January 2007) was an English sculptor. She created the bronze sculpture, the ""Bessie"", which has been given to the winner of the annual Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction since its inception in 1996. Grizel Niven was born in Belgravia, London, in 1906, the daughter of William Edward Graham Niven and Henriette Julia Degacher. Her younger brother was the actor and writer David Niven. Niven, in collaboration with Paul Clinton, was awarded a prize for one the six best designs in an international competition for the memorial sculpture at the"
"Exhibition in Wembley—until 1926, when her studio and her works from Europe were destroyed by a fire, and because of her worsening eyesight. She campaigned for social issues that affected women and the arts. She wrote for various publications under the pen names Eva Bright and Mary Temple, as well as lecturing and teaching art. She resumed painting briefly in 1960 when her eyesight improved. She moved to Victoria in 1966 and died on 4 August 1974. Some of her works are held by the National Trust of Australia and the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Daisy Rossi Daisy Mary"
"her work to that of modern sculptors Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy. (6 July 2007). Her work appeared at the Southampton Art Gallery exhibition ""Dead Wood Alive"" in 1977. In the early 1990s Hopkinson's work was also exhibited in the New Forest, alongside that of Royal Academy painter Barry Peckham, whose subjects include the Solent and Hampshire. Greta Hopkinson Greta Hopkinson (born Greta Karin Louise Stromeyer, 4 October 1901 – September 1993) was a British wood sculptor. Hopkinson was born in West Didsbury, Manchester. Her father Charles Edmund Stromeyer was a British civil engineer (expert on ship boiler design and"
"Daphne Hardy Henrion Daphne Hardy Henrion (20 October 1917 – 31 October 2003) was a British sculptor, a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and an intimate of the writer Arthur Koestler. She was born Daphne Hardy in 1917 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, to Major Clive Hardy, a diplomat, and his wife Judith. Between 1923 and 1931 she was educated in The Hague, at French and German schools. She left school aged 14 to study art privately in the Netherlands for a year with Marian Gobius and Albert Termote. From 1934 to 1937 she attended the Royal Academy Schools"
"perceptive interest in the creative arts. Catharni Stern Catharni Stern (22 August 1925 – 16 June 2015) was an English sculptor and art teacher. Catharni Stern was born on 22 August 1925. Her governess, Miss Cox conventionally restricted her when Catharni was young. At the age of six, she got a prolonged illness and was confined to bed for half a year, which became the major restriction of her childhood. But she was deprived of creative exploration, such as in modelling with clay found on the beach at Bude during the ritual annual fortnight at the seaside or in carving"
"converted watermill in Asbeek. The designer overcame in 1989 a form of cancer. She died unexpectedly on 22 June 2012 pneumonia by pneumococcus. She is survived by two daughters. The months before her death she had a lot of projects in the pipeline. For example, she designed the uniforms for the cabin crew of Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium and there was the collection for the clothing chain JBC. For the fall of 2012 she was working on the costume design of the musical Peter Pan. Preparations for the sale of its archive at the end of June 2012 were in"
"Pennsylvania, and Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She later developed Alzheimer's disease, and retired to Oxford, but she remained in the public eye. Her designs were included in an exhibition of Public Sculpture held in Leeds at the Henry Moore Institute in the autumn of 1999. Her final exhibition took place in Oxford in 2001, where her work was included with that of other artists suffering from Alzheimer's. Her daughter Antonia named an annual prize (1994 to 2007) in her honour for a sculpture student at the Ruskin School of Drawing at Oxford University. She died at her nursing"